There were a million other places Lorelai wanted to be just not where she was now - in front of her parents home. The fight with Emily the previous week was still fresh on her mind. Lorelai just couldn't forget it or even find a reason to forgive her for the hurt her words had caused. The only reason she came to the Friday dinner was because Rory had begged her to.
"Come on mom. Let's go inside. We can't spend the whole evening outside."
"Sure we can."
"No, we can't. We'll freeze to death. Besides grandma promised to apologize to you for last week. I think she finally realized that she was wrong." – Lorelai snorted at that.
"Honey, I love you but you can be so naive sometimes."
"Come on." – Rory said and rang the bell. Soon the maid opened and the stepped inside the warmth. After taking off their coats Lorelai and Rory walked into the living room to find Emily sipping a drink.
"Hello grandma."
"Hello Rory. Lorelai."
"Hello mother." – Lorelai said and sat down without even glancing at Emily.
"Where's grandpa?"
"What do you think? In his study of course. He'll be right back. How's school?" – Emily asked Rory as she purred them drinks.
"School is fine. A bit hectic at the moment but fine." – Emily and Rory continued to chat. Lorelai sipped her wine in silence. Soon Richard joined them and they all moved to the dining room for the dinner. The silence at the table was getting more awkward from one minute to the other and Lorelai just couldn't sit quietly anymore.
"What are we doing here?" – She asked and surprised everyone with her question.
"What do you mean? We're having dinner." – Emily replied.
"Mom, if you are thinking that with drinks and dinner last week is forgotten than you are wrong."
"Lorelai, this is not the right time to have that conversation."
"When is the right time?"
"Lor…"
"No, mom. I came here because Rory told me that you wanted to apologize. Did Rory lie."
"No, she didn't. Alright." – Emily said and put her fork down. – "I'm sorry that we had that unpleasant fight last week. Please accept my apology." – With that Emily resumed eating her dinner. Lorelai looked at her incredibly.
"That's it? You are sorry for the "unpleasant fight" but your are not sorry for insulting Luke and me?" – Emily didn't answer anything. – "That's really great mom, really great. You know – I guess it's all my fault."
"What's your fault?"
"I was stupid enough to let you become a bigger part of my life."
"You don't mean that Lorelai." – Richard said and Lorelai turned to her father.
"Right now I do mean it. I really believed things between us could change a bit. They did change but not for the better. I hoped that you'd learn to accept or even just tolerate my life. Now I see I was a fool to believe that. I'm leaving now. Don't expect me back anytime soon." – Lorelai said and left the dining room to get her purse. Emily followed her into the living room.
"Oh, Lorelai. Please stop being dramatic." – Lorelai grabbed her purse suppressing the words of anger that threated to leave her mouth. – "This is ridiculous. I did nothing wrong. Everything I did was because I want only the best for you." – Lorelai turned to face her mother.
"To hurt me and the man I love is what's best for me?" – Emily stared at her contemplating her next words. Before she could retort something Lorelai started talking again. – "What's best for me. You can say that as often as you like. Just because you think that's what's best for me doesn't make it true. To talk so bad about Luke and to tell your snobby friends that I'd never marry him because he's beneath me…"
"He is. He's not good for you. You could have a wonderful life. Big house, nice man and no worries. He's holding you back from having all of that."
"Oh, my God! Are you listening to yourself? You're such an arrogant snob."
"Lorelai!" – Emily said appalled.
"You don't like him because you think he has a low income."
"The man works in a diner."
"He owns the diner. A stable business he build up himself without anyone's help."
"He's not good for you."
"You're repeating yourself. Sometimes I wonder if you are even capable of loving someone. I ask myself sometimes how you fell in love with dad. Did he show you first his account statement before you decided that he's good enough to fall in love with?" – Emily just got angrier at Lorelai's words.
"He's not good enough for you, he's not good for the Gilmore family and he's not a good father figure for Rory." – Rory wanted to interfere but Lorelai stopped her with a shake of her head.
"You have no idea what an amazing person Luke is. He's perfect for me. And for your information I don't want a big house and all the other crap you mentioned. I ran away twenty years ago to escape that kind of life."
"You are saying this only…"
"Mother STOP!" – Lorelai said louder than she was already talking. – "I don't want to hear any of this anymore. You've said enough." – She calmed a bit down before continuing. – "I came here tonight to give you a last chance to make things right. Instead you choose to insult and hurt me further. Now I'm ending this whole madness. Before I leave I want you to know that I love Luke. I'm in love with him like I've never been in love before. Next to Rory he is the most important person in my life. One day I'm going to marry him and we will spend the rest of our lives together. Maybe we'll even decide to have children. Children you'll never meet because from them moment I walk out of this house you will not be a part of my life anymore. No more Friday dinners or spending the holidays together. Never again. I hope you're happy now." – Emily was standing speechless before her daughter. Lorelai turned to Rory.
"I'll be waiting outside." – Then she walked outside to her jeep.
Rory and Richard who have been silent the whole fight looked over to Emily.
"Richard, did you hear what she said?"
"Yes, Emily. I heard her."
"How dare she…"
"Grandma stop!" – Rory yelled.
"Do not talk to your grandma in that tone young lady." – Rory ignored Richard.
"I love you grandma but tonight you've gone to far. The things you said about Luke…I can't even say how disappointed I am in you. You are so wrong about everything. Luke loves mom so much and he loves me like I'm his own daughter. He's everything a father needs to be. With your spiteful words you didn't only hurt Luke and mom but also me.
You better change your attitude or you'll lose me too." – Rory picked up her things off the sofa before talking again.
"Don't expect me for dinner next week. I'll call you and tell you when I'm ready to come back again." – After that Rory left without saying goodbye.
Richard and Emily were left alone in their very silent home both stunned at their daughters and granddaughters behaviour.
TBC